Challenge Cards and Leadership Swaps

Well, it's Monday and that means brand spanking new challenges at Kaboodle Doodles and Heart Song Inspirations.  Here's my cards for this week:

Kaboodle Doodles

Heart Song Inspirations

I finally got through all the swap photos and put together this little slideshow for you:

I'm still putting together a blog candy package and hopefully I'll put that up this week.  I'm thinking this one might be the best yet so stay tuned.

Thanks for visiting!

chris

Design Teams:
Kaboodle Doodles
Heart Song Inspirations

If you have any questions about the techniques or materials used in the work displayed on this blog, feel free to use the email link on the left and I will gladly answer your questions.

Leadership Pictures - Part 1

I think I'll start off with a picture of all of us in the general session on Friday:

left to right - Pat, me, Sue, Judy

Now here's a slideshow of some of the contest entries (wow - so many gorgeous cards - I couldn't decide which ones to take pictures of and every day there was more!):

I will try to get the photos of Pat's swaps edited and uploaded within the next day or so.  We had so much fun, but now I'm paying for taking the time off from work - I've had two 10+ hour days in a row and I'm exhausted.  Headed for bed and hope to get a jump on things tomorrow.  I've got the Sassy Chic stamp camp coming up on Feb. 4 and some wonderful fun workshops planned to celebrate Sale-a-Bration and I'll be sharing some of those projects with you as well.


Thanks for visiting!

chris

Design Teams:
Kaboodle Doodles
Heart Song Inspirations

If you have any questions about the techniques or materials used in the work displayed on this blog, feel free to use the email link on the left and I will gladly answer your questions.

Behind ... as usual!

Well, I'm still editing pictures so it will be another day till the Leadership pix show up.  Sorry .. but believe me, they are worth the wait!  Such wonderful and talented folks made such gorgeous creations!

Well, it's Monday and that means new challenges at my favorite challenge blogs:

Kaboodle Doodles

Heart Song Inspirations

Be sure to stop by and check out the creations by the other dt members and hey ... why not play along!!!
 
Thanks for visiting!

chris

Design Teams:
Kaboodle Doodles
Heart Song Inspirations

If you have any questions about the techniques or materials used in the work displayed on this blog, feel free to use the email link on the left and I will gladly answer your questions.

I'm Back!!!

I am home from San Antonio and I can report that it was just fantastic!  We had so much fun and learned so much and got soooooooo many goodies!  

I am working on getting all my photos edited so that I can share them with you - hopefully tomorrow.  It's John's birthday tomorrow so today has been full of party preparations and tomorrow will be the big party!  Sons, daughters-in-law, grandkids, friends - it'll be great!  Maybe I'll get some pix of that too!


To hold you over till I get the rest edited, here's a couple of pictures that I took from the river taxi on Thursday night:

Thanks for your patience!

Thanks for visiting!

chris

Design Teams:
Kaboodle Doodles
Heart Song Inspirations

If you have any questions about the techniques or materials used in the work displayed on this blog, feel free to use the email link on the left and I will gladly answer your questions.

Greetings from San Antonio

Well, I made it safe and sound and am having a wonderful time - wish you were here!

As promised, here's the slide show of all the wonderful projects from Monday night's Front Range Stampers meeting:

Here's my card:

I will be taking pictures of all the wonderful swaps and contest entry cards and will start posting them later today.  I am not swapping, but my wonderful roommate Pat is going to let me take some pictures of hers.  So much fantastic talent here - it's just amazing!

Thanks for visiting!

chris

Design Teams:
Kaboodle Doodles
Heart Song Inspirations

If you have any questions about the techniques or materials used in the work displayed on this blog, feel free to use the email link on the left and I will gladly answer your questions.

Day Late but ...

Well, I'm a day late with my challenge cards, but here they are:

Kaboodle Doodles

Heart Song Inspirations

I went to a Front Range Stampers meeting last night and as soon as the sun comes up I'll take some pictures of the fantastic swaps and make and takes.  Watch for that post tomorrow.  I'm headed to San Antonio, Texas tomorrow morning for the Stampin' Up! Leadership Conference.  I'm very excited to be going - this is my first one!  Several of the gals from FRS and also several from my downline group will be going too so it should be a great time.  I'm taking my camera so watch for some posts from Texas!


Thanks for visiting!

chris

Design Teams:
Kaboodle Doodles
Heart Song Inspirations

If you have any questions about the techniques or materials used in the work displayed on this blog, feel free to use the email link on the left and I will gladly answer your questions.

Stamp Camp North - 01/14/2012

Saturday was the first Stamp Camp North of 2012.  I wanted to share my project with you and also a slideshow of all the other wonderful projects that our campers got to make.  Here's mine:

Here's a slideshow of all the other fantastic projects:

I'll have my projects for this week's Kaboodle Doodles and Heart Song Insprirations challenges for you tomorrow.  Wednesday I head to San Antonio for this year's Stampin' Up! Leadership Conference.  This is my first time attending and while I really wanted to make swaps, I just didn't feel up to it.  Today was really the first day that I felt totally human in over a month and half.  It was GREAT!  I plan on taking my camera though and hope to come home with lots of photos of wonderful projects made by my fellow attendees.

Thanks for visiting!

chris

Design Teams:
Kaboodle Doodles
Heart Song Inspirations

If you have any questions about the techniques or materials used in the work displayed on this blog, feel free to use the email link on the left and I will gladly answer your questions.

New SU Goodies

I wanted to share a picture with you of my new "apprentice" - her name is Maude (she's Harold's sister).  She has always had to be in the room with me, especially if I'm in there alone.  She is not a small cat and she somehow manages to fit her girth on the arm of my chair (which is only about 2 inches wide).  She has to balance herself by leaning on me and while I appreciate the warmth on cold days, it does somewhat limit my movements.  When I got sick, she basically glued herself to me.  She had to be touching me at all times.  You need to understand, this is a cat who hisses and growls at everyone (including me sometimes) and she just mellowed right out when I was not feeling well.  I came into the room the other day and found her like this:

She's that gray ball of fur in the corner next to the keyboard.  

This is the first time she's ever taken over the desk too!  Harold is doing much better and is so much happier without that nasty collar.  He visits the craft cave too but doesn't really hang out there very much.

Stampin' Up! has a new Occasions Mini catalog and an upcoming Sale-A-Bration catalog out right now.  Next week I will be heading to San Antonio for this year's Leadership Conference and they are holding a contest.  So .... I decided to make some cards to enter into the contest!  I am not quite up to making swaps, but a couple of contest cards should be no problem, right?  Here are a couple of possibles, please let me know what you think of them okay?

Funny thing I found in my junkmail folder on New Year's day:

Don't really think it takes a psychic to be able to do this do you?

Thanks for visiting!

chris

Design Teams:
Kaboodle Doodles
Heart Song Inspirations

If you have any questions about the techniques or materials used in the work displayed on this blog, feel free to use the email link on the left and I will gladly answer your questions.

I Have Returned!!!!

Seriously, I think that I am finally getting better since I'm starting to create a bit again.  So much to do, so little energy though!  Thanks for all the well wishes - I really appreciate your thoughtfulness.  Still don't have the energy level I need to have, but I'm working on it!

I missed quite a few challenges on both Kaboodle Doodles and Heartsong Inspirations, but did manage to get projects made for both this week!  Here they are:

Kaboodle Doodles

Heartsong Inspirations

I also (finally) had a chance to play with some of my new toys from SU - got them early in December and they have sat, forlornly, in my craft room waiting, and waiting, and waiting.  I'll have those to show you tomorrow.


While I was away being sick, my blogoversary came and went.  I am going to make up for missing it though with some extra special blog candy.  I've started putting it together and am deciding on whether or not I want to do something special to entice folks to enter - I'm really close to hitting 200 followers ...


Thanks for hanging in there with me.  I really am getting better and better.  I have a few more days on antibiotics and then I'll wait a few days and go get all my bodily fluids checked again, but I think it's gone (I hope).  Cross your fingers for me will you?


Thanks for visiting!

chris

Design Teams:
Kaboodle Doodles
Heart Song Inspirations

If you have any questions about the techniques or materials used in the work displayed on this blog, feel free to use the email link on the left and I will gladly answer your questions.

Still

Still sick.  Back soon though.

Thanks for visiting!

chris

Design Teams:
Kaboodle Doodles
Heart Song Inspirations

If you have any questions about the techniques or materials used in the work displayed on this blog, feel free to use the email link on the left and I will gladly answer your questions.

No, I am not dead .... yet!

I've been pretty sick and off the grid for a bit, but I'm feeling much better and hoping to have some fun things to share very soon. Thanks for being patient with me.

I did do a bit of blurfing and found this!  Scroll down the post a bit and you'll see what I'm talking about. Yay - I loved that card too.


Don't forget to check out the new freebie HERE.

See you soon!

Thanks for visiting!

~chris

Design Teams:
Kaboodle Doodles
Heart Song Inspirations

If you have any questions about the techniques or materials used in the work displayed on this blog, feel free to use the email link on the left and I will gladly answer your questions.

Challenge Cards

Well it's once again challenge time on Kaboodle Doodles and Heart Song Inspirations.  Here's my projects this week:

Kaboodle Doodles

(I'm also entering this into this week's challenge on the Meljen's Design Team Challenge Blog).  The sentiment on this card is also being offered as a freebie on the Kaboodle Doodles challenge blog so be sure to stop by and grab it.  While you are there - why don't you play along?  You could win 4 digital images from Meljen's Designs!

Heart Song Inspirations

Don't forget to checkout my other post from today to pick up your freebie Christmas Sentiments!

Thanks for visiting!

chris

Design Team Coordinator:
Sentimental Sundays
Kaboodle Doodles

Design Team Member:
Heart Song Inspirations

If you have any questions about the techniques or materials used in the work displayed on this blog, feel free to use the email link on the left and I will gladly answer your questions.

Christmas Sentiments Freebie!!!

I wanted to say a huge THANK YOU to all of you who have visited my little blog.  I designed a set of holiday sentiments that I hope you will enjoy:

You can download a zip file containing jpg and png versions of these sentiments by clicking on the image here or on my Digital Freebies page.

Again, thank you all so much for your support, I really do appreciate each and every one of you!

Thanks for visiting!

chris

Design Team Coordinator:
Sentimental Sundays
Kaboodle Doodles

Design Team Member:
Heart Song Inspirations

If you have any questions about the techniques or materials used in the work displayed on this blog, feel free to use the email link on the left and I will gladly answer your questions.

Stamp Camp Pix

I have some pix to share of last Saturday's Stamp Camp North projects. It was a cold and snowy day but our campers are real troopers and braved the weather and bad roads to come and create some Christmas magic. Here's the projects they made:

This was my project:

Here's my project for this weekend's Sassy Chic Stamp Camp.  There's still time to register so email me if you'd like the details.

Thanks for visiting!

chris

Design Team Coordinator:
Sentimental Sundays
Kaboodle Doodles

Design Team Member:
Heart Song Inspirations

If you have any questions about the techniques or materials used in the work displayed on this blog, feel free to use the email link on the left and I will gladly answer your questions.

Challenge Cards

Monday brought new challenges from both Kaboodle Doodles and Heart Song Inspirations.  The Kaboodle Doodles challenge is sponsored this week by The Craft's Meow and they sent the dt members some very fun stamps to play with.  Here is my challenge card:

These are some other cards I made using the stamps provided by The Craft's Meow:

Here is my card for this week's Heart Song Inspirations challenge:

I encourage everyone to visit these blogs and check out all the wonderful creations by the other design team members and by all means please PLAY ALONG!  There are wonderful prizes being offered and you need to take advantage of this opportunity!  Heart Song Inspirations also has a Design Team Call going on right now and I can tell you from experience that this is a wonderful team to be a part of.


I'll have a slideshow of the cards from last weekend's Stamp Camp North as well as a preview of my project for this coming weekend's Sassy Chic Stamp Camp coming your way tomorrow.

Thanks for visiting!

chris

Design Team Coordinator:
Sentimental Sundays
Kaboodle Doodles

Design Team Member:
Heart Song Inspirations

If you have any questions about the techniques or materials used in the work displayed on this blog, feel free to use the email link on the left and I will gladly answer your questions.

Downline Meeting Swaps

Well, now that it's December, I guess I am officially late posting these photos - sorry, but here they are nonetheless:

Front Range Stampers

Inky Fingers Stampers

Stamp Camp North is tomorrow in Westminster, CO.  If you want to stay in ouf of the cold and snow, email me for details.  I'll have photos of the projects to share next week as I prepare for the Sassy Chic Stamp Camp on December 10.  Anyone wanting details on that camp can email me and I'll send you the info.

Thanks for visiting!

chris

Design Team Coordinator:

Sentimental Sundays

Kaboodle Doodles

Design Team Member:

Heart Song Inspirations

If you have any questions about the techniques or materials used in the work displayed on this blog, feel free to use the email link on the left and I will gladly answer your questions.

Stamp Camp Pix

I promised myself that I would get November's Stamp Camp pictures up before the end of the month and, well, it's only the 29th so I guess I made it! I have combined the pictures from both the Sassy Chic Stamp Camp and the North Area Stampers Camp into this one slideshow. Enjoy!

There are two more camps before the end of the year -

North Area Stampers are hosting a Christmas stamp camp on December 3. Lots of wonderful holiday projects and fabulous door prizes and yummy goodies.

Sassy Chic is hosting a Christmas camp on December 10. 12 demonstrators with 12 fantastic projects and lots of door prizes and we're serving up lunch as well!

If you want details on either of these camps, just shoot me an email and I'll send you a flyer.

Thanks for visiting!

chris

Design Team Coordinator:
Sentimental Sundays
Kaboodle Doodles

Design Team Member:
Heart Song Inspirations

If you have any questions about the techniques or materials used in the work displayed on this blog, feel free to use the email link on the left and I will gladly answer your questions.

News from Sentimental Sundays

Sentimental Sundays is taking a break for a month to get reorganized and to hold a design team call. We will be back with our challenges on January 1st, 2012, so be sure to check back and see what (and who) is new!

Design Team Call

We'd like to invite a few of you talented crafters out there to join the Sentimental Sundays team.

Here are the guidelines:

• Create a new project (card, scrapbook, digital layout, alter item, anything) using any sentiment an incorporating the challenge theme at least TWICE A MONTH. You do not have to create weekly, though we (the team and those who visit the blog) love to see your creations!
• Comment on participant entries (we divvy it up to decrease the load) - this is very important! Everyone loves comments.
• Join the Sentimental Sundays Yahoo group for DT communication and to chit-chat and share your creations

Email sentimentalsundaysblog@gmail.com with the following information:

• Your name and blog address (yes you must have a blog in order to be considered).
• Why would you like to be chosen to be on the Sentimental Sundays Design Team.
• 3-4 blog post links showing with work with sentiments. (ONLY blog links, NOT actual pictures)

Thanks for visiting!

chris

Design Team Coordinator:
Sentimental Sundays
Kaboodle Doodles

Design Team Member:
Heart Song Inspirations

If you have any questions about the techniques or materials used in the work displayed on this blog, feel free to use the email link on the left and I will gladly answer your questions.

Monday Night Stamping

Well, it was just bff Sabrina and I stamping last night, but WOW was the creative energy flowing! Here's a sample of some of the things we made:






At least two of these will make it onto the agenda for the Christmas Card Buffet on the 28th! We'll be busy cutting paper and getting things all ready for the girls to join us for a fun night of crafting! I think we will substitute some glass glitter for the mica flakes on that last card though - yikes those things get everywhere.

I wanted to share a pix of my darling boy - he's been so good but is really getting impatient to "GET THIS THING OFF MY HEAD" ...


Harold really has been a very good boy but I know that he is past ready to get on with things and poor Maude thinks he's come to torment her from some alien planet. She won't even come into the bedroom to sleep but is hiding out under things and in the back of closets. I think we should be able to take it off in the next day or two as he is healing up very nicely from his little boo-boo!


Thanks for visiting!

chris

Design Team Coordinator:
Sentimental Sundays
Kaboodle Doodles

Design Team Member:
Heart Song Inspirations

If you have any questions about the techniques or materials used in the work displayed on this blog, feel free to use the email link on the left and I will gladly answer your questions.